An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala..

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are coauthors of the bestselling novels Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone , and Dance of Death . Douglas Preston , a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and systems analyst who has published numerous anthologies of ghost stories and supernatural tales. The authors are working on their next Pendergast novel;
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Rene Auberjonois plays lawyer Paul Lewiston on ABCs hit series Boston Legal . He has been a series regular and star of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , and appeared as a series regular for six seasons in Benson , for which he received an Emmy nomination. In addition, he received an Emmy® nomination for a guest appearance on The Practice . On the stage, he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle award for his starring role as Jethro Crouch in the Broadway revival of Sly Fox . He won a Tony as Katharine Hepburn's nemesis in the Broadway musical Coco and garnered three more Tony nominations for his roles in City of Angels, Big River , and The Good Doctor .